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DOWNLOAD: Dirty Three - Rising Below
After seven years of dormancy (aka its members collaborating with major names like Nick Cave, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bill Callahan and Cat Power), Dirty Three is finally back with a new full-length entitled Toward The Low Sun on Drag City. "Rising Below" is the first taste, and it's a pastoral mixture of free violin, chunky guitar and Jim White's signature drums filled with breeze and heavy-handed attacks in equal spurts. Hear more post-rock awesomeness February 28.
DOWNLOAD: Javelin - By Hook Or By Crook
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“By Hook Or By Crook” sounds like something some future swamp jug band would make, yet the washboard scrapes, chain-link pokes, pie plate stomps and pitchy glassware blasts are actually all noises captured in the alleys of Brooklyn. Hometown electro heroes Javelin then turned that collection of rag tag skiffle into a major space dance rumpshaker. Cool, right? Next time I see two junkyard dogs fighting over a rotisserie chicken carcass in front of my apartment, I'm totally going to see the beauty of it.
DOWNLOAD: Mux Mool - Palace Chalice
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On "Palace Chalice," Brooklyn producer Mux Mool (real name Brian Lindgren) has crafted a sneering piece of beat science with a rumbling trump, sparkling synthesizer arpeggios and nods to funk that'll keep your windows down no matter how cold it gets. Find more on his upcoming Planet High School, which is set for a February 7 release on Ghostly.
DOWNLOAD: Apparat - Goodbye (Instrumental)
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The loping, vaguely Southwestern strut of Apparat's "Goodbye" was featured prominently in the most recent season finale of Breaking Bad. You better not tell me what happens, though! I'm halfway through the series and can totally imagine this one, here in instrumental form, scoring the brown, desolate, rolling hills of New Mexico with a ringing piano adding drama to the expansive land. The Devil's Walk is the new Apparat, and it's ready for you now via Mute.
Apparat - Goodbye (Instrumental)
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DOWNLOAD: Tim Hecker - Sketch 5
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"Sketch 5" by Tim Hecker has a palpable tension. Piano mingles with a delay pedal, swirling in ominous layers as atonal pings and cloudy background crescendos keep things appropriately heavy and cinematic. You'll find Hecker is a sound scientist, and this one shows-off the process used to build his fantastic Ravedeath 1972 LP from earlier this year. Find more on Dropped Pianos, which available now on Kranky.
DOWNLOAD: Russian Circles - Mladek
Chicago instrumental rock band Russian Circles just released its fourth album Empros. “Mladek,” a seven-plus minute number, is almost an odyssey in itself, with swirling guitars and propulsive beats generating a wordless narrative that surges and grows as it moves. Elements of metal and classical find an unlikely balance on this one.
PREMIERE: Onra - A New Dynasty
Our finest producers scour the globe (or least a vinyl representation thereof) for the most far out, unorthodox sounds to twist into the perfect beat. Onra is one of the best at this, and his 2007 collection Chinoiseries was a post-Dilla highlight of knocking, otherworldly weirdness. Finally, after years of secretly campaigning in my bedroom, the French producer is following-up that collection with 32 more instrumentals culled from sampled vinyl that he found during trips to Southeast Asia. Here's a little taste with the premiere of "A New Dynasty." Find more on All City Records November 15.
DOWNLOAD: Rangers - Conversations On The Jet Stream
Fidelity. It's a funny thing. "Conversations On The Jet Stream," an instrumental from Rangers, could fall somewhere between The Who, Rolling Stones and Thin Lizzy if it weren't for the wobbled hiss destroying all semblance of crispness. It also makes for a hypnotic journey of smeared rock 'n' roll garbage. Feel free to get weird with this and more on Rangers' new LP, Pan Am Stories, which is available now on Not Not Fun.
